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Members of the military with a rank below that of commissioned officer constitute a vital portion of the overall strength and mobility of an armed force. RAND research on enlisted military personnel provides objective analysis and recommendations to military leaders and civilian policymakers regarding such issues as health care, diversity and quality of recruits, reenlistment behavior, personnel management, family issues, and the effects of multiple deployments.

In their own words, six junior soldiers describe why they joined the U.S. Army, their joys and frustrations, and what they hope the future brings. These stories offer lessons for policymakers, Army leaders and recruiters, and anyone considering a career in the Army.

Deployments are a key aspect of U.S. military service. Since 9/11, 2.77 million service members have served on 5.4 million deployments. Accrued time deployed is a relevant metric for measuring military experience, but also for measuring service member and family well-being.

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The U.S. military has shown over the past 30 years that is capable of filling its ranks by relying solely on volunteers. The volunteers have performed well and today make up the most powerful and most effective fighting force in the world.

Develops improved econometric analysis methods for evaluating whether military advertising has been effective in increasing the numbers of high-quality enlistments in the services and illustrates the methods using data from the early 1980s and mid-1990s.

To review the methodology that the Air Force uses to determine active-duty enlisted manpower requirements in aircraft maintenance and to investigate whether these requirements and their resulting authorizations have been underestimated.

Based on indications of increased difficulty in meeting recruiting goals, RAND was asked to examine recent trends in the recruiting market and to assess their implications for meeting accession requirements.

This documented briefing addresses the questions of whether military compensation is adequate to enable the military to meet their manpower requirements now and in the future and whether action to change military compensation is required now.

Personal stories of three junior enlisted spouses, told in their own voices and selected to emphasize the dilemmas numerous enlisted families face. The stories provide insight into the experiences and attitudes of other junior enlisted families.

This report describes recruiting trends through early 1995, focusing on changes in youth enlistment propensity and the Army's ability to "convert" the potential supply of recruits into actual enlistments.

This report describes a theoretical framework of the enlistment process that accounts for the joint role of counselors, the person-job-match algorithm, and the supply of recruits in determining the number of enlistments, occupation, term of service and enlistment benefits chosen.

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